Hi Paul, I can pretty much guarantee that the income you are losing by not offering digitally downloadable scores and parts far exceeds any potential loss you might incur due to digital piracy.
Paper copies of parts and scores can, of course, be scanned and then posted online or emailed to anyone who wants it for free, so there is really no paper vs. digital distinction worth considering. What people want most is convenience, and if you make it more convenient to purchase your music than it is to pirate it -- and this should be trivially easy for even a minimally tech-savvy self-published composer -- then you will come out ahead. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 27 Mar 2012, at 11:15 PM, Paul Hayden wrote: > Apologies if you also subscribe to the SCI list: > > I've been selling my compositions as paper sheet music for years, but I'm > getting more and more requests for PDFs. I feel a little uneasy about this > since a PDF (even with a password) can be posted online or emailed to anyone > who wants it for free. > > Any thoughts on this from publishers, composers, or engravers currently > selling PDFs? > > Thanks for any insight! > > Paul Hayden > > > Magnolia Music Press > <www.paulhayden.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
